{"product_id":"immoveable-feast-a-paris-christmas-9780061562334","title":"Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witty cultural and culinary education, \u003cem\u003eImmoveable Feast\u003c\/em\u003e is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread--and didn't speak a word of French--unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnest Hemingway called Paris \"a moveable feast\"--a city ready to embrace you at any time in life. For Los Angeles-based film critic John Baxter, that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his skeptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet--for eighteen people in their ancestral country home. Baxter's memoir of his yearlong quest takes readers along his misadventures and delicious triumphs as he visits the farthest corners of France in search of the country's best recipes and ingredients. Irresistible and fascinating, \u003cem\u003eImmoveable Feast\u003c\/em\u003e is a warmhearted tale of good food, romance, family, and the Christmas spirit, Parisian style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaxter, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJohn Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eImmoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWe'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light\u003c\/em\u003e. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, in the same building Sylvia Beach called home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630302761234,"sku":"9780061562334","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b1f75b2-1cdd-4000-a60c-31414ee306cb.jpg?v=1732748966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/immoveable-feast-a-paris-christmas-9780061562334","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}